I had a fantastic half-waking half-dreaming dream last night where I ended up finishing it by literally shouting (in the real world) and waking up Lori and the dogs much to their dismay. Lori asked me what the dream was about, but it was so complex that I couldn't answer.
It was a sci-fi dream in the vein of soylent green or body snatchers. It's roughly based on this plant called the Titan Arum which is enormous and blooms this pod that emits an odor of death. Carrion eaters are then attracted to it and find themselves stuck and consumed by the plant.
In the case of my dream the base of the plant is represented by an evil starship that lands in a wooded canyon on Earth. It then spends a little time figuring out what's up with us before figuring out a way to get the most pain and death out of some human subjects, because it lives on that stuff. Then it extrudes, I kid you not, an office building shaped roughly like a baguette but kind of folded over a hill so that you can't really see that the base of the thing is the alien starship.
The office building is beautiful, all steel and glass, aeron chairs, the whole nine. It's initially populated by this evil minions who travel with the plant like parasites and who aid in it's evil mission. They can form themselves to look like the natives (handy).
Anyway, in this case the plant has decided to emulate a software company (sue me, it's my dream) that is building some VR game. So in the middle of the building is a corridor of VR suites where the user nestles into a mesh of nodes or something to connect into the world. Upside, the VR world is cool, downside, the nodes really hurt (thus the pain thing). And the user eventually gets drained of their life force and consumed by the aliens.
In my waking-dream I thought that was a pretty clever premise, as insane and implausible as it is. But then I started into a real dream, which brought in a plot where someone was stuck in the building and about to be consumed. I needed to save them and it involved an apple of some variety. I couldn't find one and that led me to yell, which woke Lori and the dogs, and there you have it.
There was a lot more to it, but that would make for a longer post and I know people hate reading so I won't do that to you.
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